[/caption](Oct. 31, 2011) — Just when we think that Obama and Biden have reached theabsolute pinnacle of outrageousness, we find that they have topped themselves.Now we see Obama, in what must be the most cynical political pander of all time,[...]

Tax Plan that’s Better than Cain’s, Perry’s or Gingrich’sBold tax reform is front and center this campaign season. First Herman Cain made waves and poll headway with his 9-9-9 tax plan, which involves national 9-percent taxes on personal and corporate income and a 9-percent national sales tax. Now Rick Perry has followed suit with a 20-percent flat-tax plan, and Newt Gingrich has gone 5 better, with a 15-percent flat proposal. And these ideas certainly haven’t fallen flat: tax reform is immensely popular among the Republican base......http://www.newswithviews.com/Duke/selwyn157.htmby SelwynDuke

Russian Propagandists Exploit Wall Street ProtestsThe FBI has released photos, videos, and documents in the case of 10 Russian secret agents arrested—and quickly deported—in 2010. The documents are mostly heavily redacted and of no practical value to those interested in the details about on-going Russian operations against the U.S. What is perhaps more interesting and significant is what the Russians are doing in plain sight by using American cable and satellite systems against us........http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff561.htmby Cliff Kincaid

Ex-Radical: "Demonstrations Could Stop Presidential Election"If the radical leftist organizers of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations succeed, there will be no Presidential elections in 2012 and President Obama will be installed asAmerica’s first Marxist dictator, in the style of Castro, Chavez, Mao and Lenin. Despite what the Orwellian media are telling the American people, these demonstrations are being financed by the most powerful international bankers in the world......http://www.newswithviews.com/McGuire/paul102.htmby Paul McGuire

Submitted by: Donald Hank

Beware of Greeks bearing referendums. They might just be inclined to vote for liberty, for sanity, for social harmony. This will not be without pain, for they come with default on the nation’s debt, the re-birth of the drachma, and an awful lot of inflation and unemployment. But, the Greeks might say, at least it’s their drachma, their inflation and their unemployment: they will own it, because they are sovereign once again.

Don't know the originating source for this, but I do like it...................

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americanswith monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods -- merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor.This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans.There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands.Yes there is!

Illegal aliens are climbing over, digging under and even tearing down the border fence between Mexico and the United States. If we mean to truly protect our borders, we need more boots on the ground – and the political will to enforce our immigration laws.

A fence along the U.S. and Mexican border is a linchpin of border defense, but the fact is a fence alone cannot protect us from the horde of illegal aliens invading our country on a daily basis.

Remember the children's song about overcoming obstacles – "Can't go through it, can't go around it, gotta go OVER it?" That is exactly what illegal intruders and the drug cartels are doing on a daily basis. As the open border politicians love to quip, "all an unmanned 14 foot fence will do is cause a spike in the sales of 15 foot ladders."

Justice Department officials are suing South Carolina over the state’s new legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration saying that the measure pre-empts federal authority and could lead to the harassment and detention of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens. DOJ officials also claim that it would interfere with and undermine the federal government’s control over relations with foreign governments because of the component requiring the carrying of documents to prove residency. South Carolina argues that they are trying to uphold the rule of law because the feds have failed to do so.

TOP JUSTICE OFFICIAL ADMITS ‘MISTAKE’ IN IGNORING ATF’S ‘UNACCEPTABLE TACTICS’

Hundreds of documents released yesterday by the Justice Department prove that a high-ranking Obama administration official not only knew about the ATF’s botched gun-running operation that put more than a 1000 weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, he allowed it to continue “without asking key questions.” Lanny Breur, the head of the Justice Department’s criminal divisions, is quoted as expressing “regret” that he didn’t tell others about the unacceptable tactics used during “Operation Fast & Furious.”

Permitting access to domestic resources creates jobsNevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country and is one of the worst in foreclosures. “In my district,” Nevada Assemblyman Hansen reports, “one in seventeen houses is in foreclosure. One in eight is vacant. The people are economically desperate. Meanwhile we have an industry that would love to open up mines and create jobs with an average salary of $80,000. Unfortunately we also have a government that takes ten years to permit a mine.” No wonder 77% of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.Read More

Let Them Eat Cake: 10 Examples Of How The Elite Are Savagely Mocking The PoorThere is absolutely nothing wrong with working hard and making a lot of money, but there is something wrong with being completely arrogant and smug about it. Today, many among the elite are savagely mocking the poor, and that is a huge mistake. You shouldn’t kick people when they are down. There are tens of millions of Americans that are deeply frustrated about losing their homes, losing their jobs or barely being able to survive in this economy. These frustrations have been one of the primary reasons for the rise of the Tea Party movement and the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement. What these movements have in common is that ...Read More

Supporting Cain, GOP base evokes Thomas hearingsConservatives rallied around Herman Cain as he battles sexual harassment allegations, likening the attacks on the Republican presidential contender to what they describe as the “high-tech lynching” of another prominent black Republican: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The forceful early reaction to the Cain firestorm — fueled by racially charged rhetoric — suggests the Georgia businessman’s attempt to cast himself as a victim of the media and liberals is, so far, paying dividends among his conservative Republican base, who will hold considerable sway in selecting the party’s nominee. Read More

President Obama announced last week that American forces will leave Iraq by the end of the year. The decision was made when the administration failed to secure a Status of Forces agreement with the Iraqi government. Intelligence data has revealed that former Ba'athist political and ex-military officers were planning a coup to regain power they once had before Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003....

Arizona's maverick Sheriff Joe Arpaio promised surprises in his jurisdiction's investigation of Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidential ballot and his Cold Case Posse is delivering – raising questions that touch on the authenticity of the long-form birth certificate issued last April and the possibility Obama is using a fraudulent Social Security Number.

One of the ugliest of racial stereotypes is that black men have large and uncontrollable sexual impulses. Many a hanging tree across America silently testifies to the unproven allegations that a black man made unwanted advances to a local white girl. Alleged rape or unwanted sexual contact was a constantly used tool by Southern elites to unburden their communities of black men they didn't like or feared.

Now, the liberal elite in the media have decided the Cain Train has gotten too long....

Isolated Papandreou acts alone in referendum gamble

(Reuters) - Through grueling euro-summits, he has looked glum, wistful, even isolated; but no-one would have guessed Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was weighing the announcement that sent shockwaves through Europeon Tuesday.

I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article. Help your friends and relatives stay informed by passing the digest on.

I will be away Wednesday – Sunday on business, with little time. If the blog gets pulled during that time by Google, may be a while before I can get a restore/appeal request to them. If you don’t see my blog, please check back next week if not before. Sorry. Thanks. ~Bob.

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If you log on to the Old Jarhead blog and get this notice, please check back. Every week since August, Google’s Spam Filter has pulled my blog, first on Saturdays, then Wednesdays, lately on Thursdays. They restore it when I appeal, but they don’t seem to have the technical ability to fix the problem. I hate to move to another platform with page views running to 7k to10k a week and over 1,160 followers here.

Excerpt: Justin Lane/European Pressphoto AgencyOne of the New York offices for MF Global, the brokerage firm run by Jon S. Corzine. The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the CME Group confirmed on Tuesday that the brokerage firm failed to keep customer money separate from company money. The serious blunder by MF Global, a commodities powerhouse run by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor, violated crucial Wall Street regulations, CME’s chief executive said. (Corzine was also a US Senator, spending $62M of his own money to buy the seat in 2000. And what has he been doing lately besides destroying investors’ wealth in MFGlobal? Why, raising Wall Street money for Obama?http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bam_recruits_corzine_to_woo_back_rhuDmIaaH8fOvWAPSMTDOL OWS will be so mad. Ha. I crack me up. ~Bob.)

At the recent CNN Republican Presidential Debate at the Venetian in Las Vegas, the question of Yucca Mountain inevitably was raised. The candidates generally gave "safe" answers, but I suspect a more thorough briefing on the issue would be helpful to them. That said, I'm no rocket surgeon, so I'll limit my observations more to the political arena, not scientific.

Indeed, review of the licensing application for the nuclear waste storage facility is supposed to answer the scientific questions about suitability and safety. But for political reasons, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has done everything in his power to block scientific review of that application, including drying up the funding for that review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

SPECULATION GROWING ABOUT POSSIBLE ISRAELI FIRST STRIKE AGAINST IRAN; ESCALATION IN GAZA ALSO POSSIBLE SOON

Joel C. Rosenberg

(Washington, D.C., November 1, 2011) -- Speculation in Washington and the Middle East continues to grow about a possible Israeli preemptive military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. This is in part because Iran is getting closer to building nuclear warheads, in part because of remarks Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke to the Knesset on Monday about the Iran threat, in part because former Vice President Dick Cheney recently speculated about an Israeli first strike, and in part because the Obama administration is publicly pressuring Israel not to hit first.

Herman Cain continued to generate the strongest positive reactions among Republicans just prior to media reports of past sexual harassment allegations against him. Cain is the only candidate whose most recent Positive Intensity Score is higher than it was in Gallup's initial measurement.

We're putting the final touches on the first ad buy of our historic PR campaign defending the Tea Party from the baseless and dishonest attacks of the left. Because they cannot beat our ideas of personal responsibility, free markets and fiscal responsibility, they've resorted to some of the most vile and hate-filled rhetoric we've ever seen used in public debate! We cannot let these attacks go unanswered, which is why we're rolling out a sophisticated and comprehensive PR campaign that will provide an important counter-voice to the liberal lies and attacks.